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Electronic commerce (EC) has marked a new era for contemporary business. Although electronic data interchange (EDI) is a major component of EC, it is not widely adopted mainly due to high entrance cost and the lack of interoperability among information systems. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes a distributed model so that EDI transactions can be directly generated from or transformed...